“We received approximately 483 tweets asking about Cortana in Brazil.”

“The development of Cortana, obviously as you can imagine, is a complex development. It includes both the speech recognition part, which is probably the most difficult for us to have variations in age, accent, if the person is with cold or flu, hoarse. All this has to be taken into consideration in the algorithm. And we have the text-to-speech, which is to transform text into speech to sound natural. There is a whole study on deconstructing the language in terms of phonemes, how to combine them in a way that sounds natural and don’t get a robotic voice. What we have to say on this subject is: Cortana is under development in Portuguese and Microsoft intends to expand Cortana languages in a very aggressive way on 2016”

It appears clear that bringing Cortana to other regions is rather a big task, but given the size of the Brazilian market for Windows Phone (second largest in the world) we hope Microsoft is working as fast as possible to make it happen and make their Windows Phone offerings there as competitive as possible with other mobile operating systems.

Thanks Vitorfor the tip and transcript.

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